Malloy No Friend Of Schools, Teachers

Letter to the Editor

According to media reports, he is the only Democratic governor in the nation who has proposed doing away with teacher tenure and eliminating collective bargaining for teachers in the lowest-performing schools. He has proposed that teacher evaluation programs be linked to standardized test scores. He is a proponent of the educational failure known as Common Core, with its increased nonsensical testing that takes away from valuable student learning.

He proposed cutting $70 million in state contributions to the Retired Teachers Health Insurance Fund. And sadly, over the past four years, public schools were given approximately one-tenth of the increased state funding that charter schools received.

The CEA website proclaims: “We're here to point the way and help members elect lawmakers who value and respect the important role public education and teachers play in our state." What? Malloy’s first term did not “value and respect” public education and its teachers.

CEA and AFT have turned their backs on their membership. I urge my public school colleagues and parents of Connecticut students to write in a vote for Jonathan Pelto, the only true proponent of public school education.